Tomorrow the world marks 52 years since Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight into space and 32 years since the first launch of the Space Shuttle. Scientists, artists, educators, and fans of space will be ...
Queen Elizabeth II was stroked on the leg by the first human to travel to space in a breach of royal protocol, according to a biography. The Monarch, now 96, met Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin for ...
On the morning of April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin fell out of the sky onto a quilt of farmland growing wheat and rye in the Russian village of Smelovka. He unhooked his parachute and strolled, waving, ...
Yuri Gagarin and the many faces of modern Russia -- A victor's congress baby -- The industrial boys -- The chief designer -- The flight that launched a thousand rumors -- Exegesis -- Homo sovieticus - ...